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APARTMENTS OUTSIDE THE BOX There has been a recent growth spurt of highrise apartment development along Manhattan's avenues. Although these buildings strengthen street-level pedestrian activity, replacing congested parking lots with shops and restaurants, their predictable appearance means that the population of New York is being denied high-quality design.
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MUSEUM OF GLASS BY ARTHUR ERICKSON Amid a scruffy sprawl of warehouses and marinas, on a former brownfield site in Tacoma, Washington, sits the sparkling new Museum of Glass. Subtitled the International Center for Contemporary Art, this is the most recent hope for reviving Tacoma's lackluster downtown core. The 75,000-square-foot (7000-square-meter), $63 million project was designed by the preeminent Canadian architect Arthur Erickson in collaboration with Nick Milkovich Architects Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Thomas Cook Reed Reinvald, of Tacoma.
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AERIAL OFFICES Successful interior design not only looks good, it makes occupants feel comfortable and productive. So what could be a greater challenge than applying such criteria to that classically uncomfortable of interior environments — the airline cabin?
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More Architecture and Design Swedish Cancer Institute Wins Award of Excellence — Modern Healthcare, 2002.1015Elegant - But Is It Architecture? — Opinion at Guardian Unlimited, 2002.1014 Tadao Ando's Glass Teahouse — ARC Space, 2002.1007 Magic Box — Guardian Unlimited, 2002.1007 'This Weird House': Design School for the Nervy — New York Times, 2002.1003 Power of Place — Metropolis, 2002.1001 Daniel Libeskind Denver Art Museum — ARC Space, 2002.0930 In the Name of the Padre — Guardian Unlimited, 2002.0930 Wadsworth Atheneum of Art Schematic Design — ARC Space, 2002.0923 Chair of the Year Award for Ilian Vladimirov Milinov — Promosedia SpA press release, 2002.0917 Munich's Majestic Warehouse — Deutsche Welle, 2002.0917 Daring, Whimsical and Rusty — The Age, 2002.0917 Moshe Safdie and Associates' Peabody Essex Museum — ARC Space, 2002.0916
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